KNOWLEDGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Abstract

Objective:

To assess the knowledge and extent of application of artificial intelligence among healthcare workers along with comparison between male and female gender as well as seniority of healthcare workers.

Materials and Methods:

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 healthcare professionals in two hospitals Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital Lahore and Allied Hospital Faisalabad over 6 months using a questionnaire proforma by chat GPT.

Results:

The study included 356 participants, mostly female (72.2%) with an average age of 28.08±4.20 years. Most had 1-9 years of work experience (61.5%). Nearly half (49.4%) had no AI application experience, and only 14.0% had formal AI training. Despite this, 80.3% recognized AI's importance in healthcare. AI was used by 24.4% of participants, mainly in patient monitoring (25.3%), research (27.2%), and diagnostics (19.7%). Challenges included clinical validation (33.1%) and cost (32.6%). Ethical concerns were significant, with 80.9% worried about privacy and 59.0% distrusting AI with sensitive data. Education and training (71.1%) were key for AI integration.

Conclusion:

Learning and application of artificial intelligence is the need of the hours and the general opinion is that if used under doctors' supervision, it will help improve patient care.